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Seeking Corporate Technology Partnerships:
How You Can Help Grow The SAEM Foundation
The SAEM Foundation is seeking corporate technology
sponsorships for its research and education training grants. For
the past 20 years, in a superb model of corporate/foundation
partnership, the Physio Control Corporation has sponsored the
“Physio Control EMS Fellowship.” Their donation of $60,000
per year funds a one-year training fellowship for SAEM members
interested in a career in EMS education/research/administration.
It is our belief that there are other potential corporate technology
companies out there which can provide similar partnerships with
the SAEM Foundation.
The SAEM Foundation Development Committee, in conjunction
with the SAEM Grants Committee, has begun soliciting technology
companies in an attempt to create named training grants within
the SAEM Foundation grants portfolio. Ultrasound and simulation
companies are the most notable targets of this search, under the
assumption that many companies would like to contribute either
money or technology to allow the creation of high quality training
grants with their name on them. We are specifically looking to
fund two-year technology-related research or education grants
which would result in an advanced degree (MS, etc) for the fellow.
Eight companies have already been solicited.
Here’s where we need your help. Writing letters to companies
without a specific targeted person or pre-established relationship
is less than effective. Targeted mailings or personal meetings
with the “right” contacts in the technology companies are
much more effective. We need your contacts!! If you have
a pre-existing relationship with a technology company vendor/
marketing/development officer, and are willing to connect us with
them or make an introduction, we would love to take advantage
of the opportunity. These opportunities are rarely competitive
with your own technology needs, but can provide a chance for
the technology companies to create something special for our
trainees and for themselves.
Please forward your contacts to us, or to Holly Gouin, or Melissa
McMillian in the SAEM office, or give a heads-up to one of the
Development Committee or Grants Committee representatives,
and we’ll take it from there. ◗
Thanks very much for your help.
Jim Hoekstra, MD
Chairman, SAEM Foundation Development Committee
James Holmes, MD
Chairman, SAEM Grants Committee
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Become One
The SAEM Foundation continues to work toward a better
future within academic emergency medicine, which is why
the Foundation Development Committee is challenging all
SAEM members to stand up and Become One! Become one
person to help a young investigator get a needed grant or
become one person who makes the Educational Fellowship
Grant possible. Accept this challenge and know you have
Become One and are helping to create a better tomorrow
within academic emergency medicine.
As a small token of gratitude for all generous contributions,
the SAEM Foundation Development Committee will
be entering donors’ names into a drawing for an iPad 2. The
drawing will take place prior to the 2012 Annual Meeting
in Chicago. Also, the institution that leads with the most
donations will be recognized at the Foundation Awareness
Cocktail Hour in Chicago.
All donations can be made online at www.saem.org or by
mail to:
SAEM Foundation
2340 South River Rd, Suite 200, Des Plaines, IL 60018
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